Century old architecture XI

Hi friends

Today we move to many centuries ago.

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Where faith led the master masons and peasants to make little sisters in the middle of the mountain, where they went on pilgrimage to ask for the bounties of nature, but that is religion and here we are in ancient architecture and without architects since in those times that position did not exist , but the arts are the same to devise a house to advance civilization.

We find this hermitage after a two-hour walk through the mountain and at its top there is the hermitage of San Pedro (Abrisketa) located on a mountain in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain.

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When we see it from a distance, it looks like a postcard of some quiet place and a postcard with its pine tree in a small field of green grass.
When we get closer we see that it is remodeled, it is many centuries high, with inclement weather.
As I tell you, it is believed that it was built in the eleventh century and dedicated to Saint Peter.

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It is a construction with a single rectangular nave and an apse that is smaller than the nave,
The wooden semicircular door is closed, it can only be visited on days dedicated to the saint.
West facing

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The door and window trim with the checkered pattern so fashionable in those days.
In the same wall we find the holy water font decorated with a drumstick that is already wearing out.
Built with sandstone and in a pre-Romanesque style.

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As I mentioned, it is restored and here we can see the old arch that led to the hermitage, today bricked up to leave only one entrance.

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This window is a remnant prior to the Romanesque construction, therefore it is pre-Romanesque, possibly prior to the 11th century.

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In the lower part there are two crosses of the Visigothic calls, crowned by arches in curtain or in half a point.

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There I put the camera in to see if I could get something out of the interior, but it was in vain only the vault was seen and because of its condition it also seems rebuilt.

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The reliefs are very damaged, remember that it is sandstone and the wind and water devour them.
The one that looks better is a couple embracing and the other, more deteriorated, a naked man.
It was very normal that in Romanesque eroticism would be everywhere, sometimes hidden and sometimes in plain sight.
Our friend

@juancar347 has studied this topic a lot and a friend of his has edited a very interesting book on this topic, which they have collected in many years touring small towns
"The sacred erotic of the Romanesque". Sex like this on Earth as it is in Heaven
Author
Rafael Alarcón Herrera¨

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Two fig trees guard the hermitage, where pilgrims fed on them on pilgrimage days.

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This small construction was rebuilt, but tests are still being carried out with georadar to build a map of the subsoil, looking for interesting archaeological remains without touching the land.
Visually it is a great moment when you are tired of climbing and you meet her and you can imagine our ancestors enjoying the pilgrimage and ancient beliefs, all dancing around her and socializing.

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